If you're an immigrant from Krypton living in the U.S.—or in any spot on Earth—then flying without the benefit of a wingspan or jet propulsion and hearing the flutter of a butterfly in Ensenada while you're leaping over the Empire State Building in a single bound is old hat. Warner Bros.' Man of Steel, the new Superman reboot, is no cause for celebration for you either—it'll just flush out the anti-immigrant wingnuts who'll once again terrorize you and your relatives with Kryptonite hockey pucks.
You didn't ask for superpowers—you just needed to find a more hospitable planet. Your superpowers make you feel like a freak and, if you work in PR, cause no end of frustration. Using your superpowers for your own professional ends feels too much like cheating—your old-school Kryptonian parents certainly wouldn't approve—and so you toil away like just another Clark Kent.
I'm telling you now to embrace your true, Kryptonian self—own your inner Superman or Superwoman, put your powers to use as a PR pro. Let's face it—part of the reason you deny your superpowers is you're afraid that they might not be so super after all. And that's just not logical.
Here are just three suggestions to get you started:
- If your brand is in crisis because of, say, an oil spill or because of a cruise ship that's run aground, fly around the Earth really fast to reverse its rotation around the axis. This will take you back in time so you can prevent the oil rig from exploding or the cruise ship captain from carousing.
- Make your brand a CSR leader by using your super breath power to re-freeze the melting polar ice cap.
- Use your blinding speed to respond to every tweet that mentions your brand's name—in real time! And, as a bonus, using this speed you'll finally be able to clear out all those unopened emails.